the bug in question is that the 'copy' command copies the 'owner' field instead of setting it to the user who did the copy, which means you can create a repo with 'gitano copy' that you are then not permitted to delete

right - I couldn't test with current morph (it would have been a full rebuild, and I'm in a hurry), but editing /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morphlib/plugins/deploy_plugin.py in place fixed that deployment-time json encoding problem